When Sam (Dayton Knoll,
BLOOD RANCH), his sister Lucy (Kathryn Michelle, REPO
MEN), girlfriend Kat (Cassie Self), and best friend
Tommy (Adam Huss, EL MASCARADO MASSACRE) decide to
camp out at Devil's Den State Park in Resurrection County -
necessitating a detour through creepy Enoch City - you know
there's little chance of them ever coming back. When Sam and
Tommy ignore the "no trespassing" and "keep out" signs and
drive their ATV's onto the meth lab of Stag (Rus Blackwell,
MONSTER), they get in a shootout with his tweaking
brother Billy (Lynnsee Provence, THE GIFT). Sam and Tommy
take off on foot with Stag in pursuit. Meanwhile, his Enoch
City buddies terrorize the girls back at camp. Stag brutally
murders Kat and Sam shoots him, incurring the wrath of
Stag's brother Cody (Jason T. Davis, SUGAR CREEK).
Sam, Tommy, and Lucy are abducted but their inevitable
"torture porn" torments will have to wait until after the
wake for the two dead brothers conducted by their preacher
father (Robert Miano, SAFEHOUSE) who is willing to
"let boys be boys" so long as their fun does not attract any
more suspicion from the new sheriff (David Pickens, MY
DOG SKIP). Sam, Tommy, and Lucy can only endure so much
torture until they strike back with equally deadly - if not
as sadistic - force.

RESURRECTION COUNTY really adds nothing new to the
backwoods or torture porn sub-genres, and is a fairly
monotonous experience. Although there are some lingering
scenes of violence, the film is never as brutal as it wants
its audience to think it is. Furthermore, it's attempt to
keep the audience on its feet by killing off the cardboard
characters marked with traits that usually let them survive
in other horror films fails to liven things up. The victims'
equally brutal scenes revenge are not particularly cathartic
for the viewer, and the circular ending is just tired. This
is all unfortunate because both the principal and supporting
cast, though mostly unfamiliar, are all quite good (particulary
Mioni, Davis, and Blackwell).

MTI's DVD
features an interlaced, single-layer, anamorphic
presentation of the feature. Some highlights are blown-out
in the daylight exteriors, but this is probably a fault of
the original cinematography (which is otherwise fine with
good detail in close-ups). English closed-captioning and
optional Spanish subtitles accompany the Dolby Digital 5.1
and 2.0 stereo downmix. There are no extras other than the
trailer and trailers for other MTI titles.